In the prologue to Easy Squeezy, (Paul D’Ambrosio, Down The Shore Publishing, 2013) the year is 1974. Eight-year-old Barry watches as his Mafioso father is slain in a Toms River courtroom; he and his mother take refuge in the Witness Protection Program.
Chapter one is set in a future present in Egypt, two days before a presidential election. No word of Barry. A high-up drone destroys a tiny flash drive, fouling up an information transfer and uniting two mercenaries, the Russian Volya and the American known as “Commander,” in a quest for survival that will evolve into a mission to rescue the…
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